technical side joe greco with me on the floor of the stage and on the fundamental side is jeff kilbergfounder of kkm financial, a cnbc contributor who is in chicago. jeff, low rates and easy money policies around the world so why is gold falling right now? >> well, bill, i think there's a couple of stories going on, and clearly it's a u.s. dollar strengthening story. we came down and our other guest can talk about the technicals but once we broke that 1620 essentially in the gold, we saw a breakdown and saw it testing the 50 level. one thing that really helped out, those who want to step in here and be a contrarian like myself is that ben bernanke came out and basically said that all the fed presidents and bickering and fighting, folks, he'll still make that call, and he came out and said that on tuesday. we've seen markets rally, and with the markets rallying, folks are averse to gold, so i think this is an opportunity to get in and get long gold right now. >> joe, what do the charts look like? >> well, thanks for the nod there, jeff, but, you know, i'm very long term and looking bull